Sentences with phrase «of illegitimate births»

Marriage is designed to protect any neighborhood, any city, any nation from an abundance of illegitimate births.

Driving the movement, too, is alarm over the explosion of illegitimate births in the urban underclass (now over 80 percent of births), as well as in the general population (around 30 percent of births).

From the ascension of Queen Victoria in 1837 to her death in 1901, as Prof. Himmelfarb shows, the crime rate, the poverty rate, and the rate of illegitimate births were not just stable, but actually declining.

The earliest known reference being in an anthology of fables from 1052 that tells of a dishonest merchant who swindles the king by pretending to weave a supernatural garment that can not be seen or touched by any person of illegitimate birth.

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What I want to know: WHO is footing the bill for the birth of all these «illegitimate children».

Given the neo-bourgeois uniformity of Belmont — marriage as the norm, infrequent divorce, very few illegitimate births — Murray finds this nonjudgmentalism «one of the more baffling features of the new - upper - class culture.»

Christianity Today's board chairman, Harold Ockenga, announced in 1977 that that magazine would move to a suburb of Wheaton, Illinois because» «Deleterious things happen to attitudes if a person lives here»» in Washington, D.C., amid the moral decay of soaring liquor consumption and illegitimate births.49 Sojourners, on the other hand, recently chose to relocate its intentional community and editorial offices in the heart of that same capital district, amid the suffering and dispossessed.

The facts are at the core of this: as more and more contraceptives have been distributed to young people, the abortion rate and the illegitimate birth rate have both gone up, not down.

A more likely source is the decline of the black family (approximately three - fifths of current black births are illegitimate) and the effect that liberal economic and social policies have had on encouraging dysfunctional social behavior and in undermining those forces within the city such as religion that have attempted to hold back the new urban barbarism.

He had opposed British involvement in the war at its outbreak in 1914, a highly principled position to take in the face of its huge popularity among members of his own party, resigned his position as the leader of the Parliamentary Labour Party in consequence and then had his illegitimate birth raised by the newspapers in an attempt to get him to resign his seat as an MP (they argued that as he'd used a different name during his life from that on his birth certificate he'd stood for election on false pretenses and deceived his constituents).

The percentage of white births in the U.S. that was illegitimate, he wrote, had inched upward from 2 percent in 1940 to 3 percent in 1963.

Years after they marry, an affair she has one night leads to the birth of an illegitimate heir, an event that alters the course of history.

Inspired by a few facts from Errol Flynn's life, and rooting her story firmly in Jamaican history, Cezair - Thompson vividly imagines the life of Ida, who is little more than a child herself when she gives birth to her daughter May, the illegitimate child of 1930 / 40s movie star Errol Flynn - known as a swashbuckling adventurer on screen, and for his glittering parties and affairs off screen.

At the time of Rodney Gagnon's birth in 1935, the Indian Act, R.S.C. 1927, c. 98, s. 12, provided that the illegitimate child of an Indian woman had band membership unless the child was excluded from membership by the Superintendent General.

2 I have adopted the summary of the disabilities imposed on persons of «illegitimate» birth set out here from a 1965 article by Bernard Green and R.I. Winter in the University of Toronto Law Journal, Vol.